Asian Red Cross humanitarian drug policy
Nine
National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent from Asia on Saturday
signed a consensus aimed at promoting health-based measures to fight
drug abuse and clear social stigma tagged to drug takers.
Delegates
from the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in the Philippines,
China, Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, Fiji, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and
Thailand signed the Rome Consensus in Manila after a two-day discussion
on advocating a humanitarian approach to tackle drug abuse in the
region.
Richard J. Gordon, Chairman and CEO of the Philippine
National Red Cross, said the Red Cross can play "a strategic role" in
preventing drug abuse by mobilizing its volunteers to provide services
that would improve self-worth of individuals that include counseling,
youth development, livelihood and reporting of the cases in community.
"We
can also advocate with the government to harmonize the policies related
to drug use problems based on humanitarian values, " said Gordon, who
also sits in the Senate of the Philippines.
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Asian Red Cross societies pledge to advocate humanitarian drug policy
China People’s Daily Online
September 29, 2007
